[Ryzorian]

Yet Haiti is being helped so quickly because that "evil empire" has an aircraft carrier down there and 9000 troops onshore helping with logistics. I'm sorry, but the US is no where near as bad as anyone thinks it is. Sure it may end up being world police sometimes..but it's also the worlds fireman, ambulance, disaster relief, emergency room, food center. It's all these things and it utilizes that "empiral" military to do it.

Your right though, empires do come and go, and culture with it. The high arts, technology, advanced medicine, music, advanced agriculture, advanced buildings and bridges, sewer systems, these are all born from Empires. You dont have huge leaps in mankind's cultural advancement with out said empires to protect and nurture those aspects.